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EagleView Technologies Is Changing the Way Contractors Do Business

Throughout many roofing professionals’ careers there
has been technology that has literally changed the way they do business. Some
are easy to recognize such as fax, cell phone and the Internet while others are
very industry-specific such as software for estimating, accounting and
production.

Throughout many roofing professionals’ careers
there has been technology that has literally changed the way they do business.
Some are easy to recognize such as fax, cell phone and the Internet while
others are very industry-specific such as software for estimating, accounting
and production. A new technology that is again changing the course of the
roofing industry has been developed and perfected over the last two years by
EagleView Technologies out of Bothell, Wash. - aerial roof measurement reports.

For generations, roofing estimators have been climbing ladders and measuring
roofs. “Measuring roofs takes time, money and is a huge safety concern for our
company,” stated Bill Gabel, an estimator for Interstate Roofing of Portland,
Ore., since 1994. “It easily adds two hours to estimating for every job that I
could be spending on the next estimate.” When asked what he has done to change
that, he was very definite: “We pull an EagleView report.”

Software as a service is the new terminology for what EagleView is providing
the roofing industry. “We are in our sixth generation of aerial measurement software
technology and improving it every day,” stated Chris Barrow, president and CEO
of EagleView Technologies. “It is the next revolution in high tech. Instead of
roofing contractors spending thousands installing software and maintaining
crews in-house, they simply place an order on the internet for a roof
measurement report and they are ready to estimate the job in hours.”

Sean Clay has been an estimator with Interstate Roofing, Portland, Ore., since 1995.

Interstate Roofing, one of Portland’s largest residential and commercial
roofing companies, started out using the EagleView reports on just large and
complicated jobs. What they have seen since then is an overall shift in how
they do business utilizing the EagleView reports.

“Before I would pull up to a house and see the complexity of the roof and after
talking to the homeowner, go back to the office and order an EagleView report.
Now I know which neighborhoods have the large cut-up roofs and I am starting to
order the reports before my appointment. Now when I show up, I am prepared and
it is making a huge difference with homeowners,” stated
Gabel.

“What it really does is give you a sense of confidence in your estimate,”
agreed Sean Clay, an estimator with Interstate Roofing since 1995. “The
accuracy of these reports is unbelievable. We are finding that we can take the
EagleView measurements which include square footage, lineal footage and pitch,
calculate the waste from the report’s waste table and we are right on with our
estimate. In this economy, homeowners want to know that they are getting
exactly what they need, no more, no less.”

“I have two jobs just recently where I estimated the roofs and then we pulled
an EagleView report,” confirmed Gabel. “In reviewing the results with
production, EagleView was dead on. It is hard for us estimators who have been doing
it for a long time to put that much faith in a report but I am consistently
finding savings of at least two squares or more in my estimates. In today’s
competitive economy, two squares can win or lose the job.”